Here’s every track featured on the soundtrack for Netflix’s The Haunting Of Hill House. The Haunting Of Hill House adapts the classic Shirley Jackson novel, which revolved around a scholar and his team investigating a haunted house seeking proof of ghosts. This chiller was first turned into a movie by director Robert Wise with 1963’s The Haunting. The movie is still considered one of the best horror films ever made and is noted for its use of sound effects and psychological chills over overt scares.
The Haunting received a bombastic remake in 1999, led by Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Owen Wilson. Replacing the classy, restrained chills of the 1963 movie with overbearing CGI and loud jumpscares turned out to be a bad idea, and while it was a mild success it received mostly poor reviews. Faring much, much better was Netflix’s 2018 The Haunting Of Hill House adaptation. Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) directed every episode, which reinvented the central premise by focusing on a family who lived in the titular house. The story is split between two time frames, with the first exploring their time living in the house and the other taking place decades later when they have to return to it.
The Haunting Of Hill House received acclaim and managed to tell both an emotional family drama while featuring some genuinely terrifying sequences. It even launched an easter egg hunt of sorts thanks to episodes that placed ghosts in the background of several scenes, with some being particularly hard to spot. The series also featured a rich, atmosphere score by The Newton Brothers, and below is every track found on The Haunting Of Hill House soundtrack.
- The Haunting of Hill House (Main Theme)
- Come Home
- Larks and Katydids
- Darkness and Chaos
- That Night
- Take Her Down
- Whatever Walked There, Walked Alone
- Hill House
- Go Tomorrow
- Science vs. Religion
- What Did You Really See
- The Red Room
- Missing Things
- I Believe You
- 12:00 AM
- In the Shadow of Ghosts
- I Want to Wake up So Badly
- Luke
- Approaching the House
- Haunted Past
- You Remember
- Feel Nothing
- Beginning of the End Movement I
- Beginning of the End Movement II (Tea Party)
- Beginning of the End Movement III
- Beginning of the End Movement IV
- The End
The Newton Brothers worked with The Haunting Of Hill House’s Mike Flanagan many times before the show, including Hush and Gerald’s Game. Their fruitful creative partnership paid off once again with the show, with The Newton Brothers’ composing a fittingly haunting score for the horror epic, including standout tracks like “Beginning Of The End Movement I” or “Luke.”
Sadly, the soundtrack is lacking several songs that feature during key scenes in The Haunting Of Hill House, including “Heavenly Day” by Patty Griffin or “If I Go, I’m Goin” by Gregory Alan Isakov, which is the song that closes out the show. Flanagan and much of the cast will return for the upcoming The Haunting Of Bly Manor, though it’s currently unknown if the Newton Brothers will return to compose the score too.
